How We Won the Vote in California
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Excerpt from How We Won the Vote in California: A True Story of the Campaign of 1911 In this peerless dramatic poem is typified the martyrdom of woman in her struggle for freedom throughout the ages. When the sister confesses, "I loosed the swathing folds that bind me, to let soft airs of noonday in," and pleads piteously for pardon, the four brothers avenge their own outraged honor by stabling her to death! Nearly a quarter of a century ago, a small group of young professional women - teachers, writers, physicians - formed at the home of one of them the first suffrage club, as well as the first woman´s club, in San Francisco. For, although at that time there was a state suffrage organization, and many bodies of women were at work in the cause of charity, the church, temperance, education - none of these went by the name of, or were in effect - a "club." Mrs. Ellen Clark Sargent the first president of the State association, and leader of suffrage in California, had, many years before, nobly upborne the banner of "woman´s rights" with her husband, Senator Sargent, who was minister to Germany, even at the risk of loss of personal and official prestige in the conservative court circles. It was at the home of Mrs. Sargent, during a visit to our city of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, soon after the birth of the Woman´s Club of San Francisco, that the Century Club came into existence. In the effort to attain social success this club admitted to membership too large a number of merely fashionable women, and so swamped itself at the outset, and failed forever in the cherished purpose and aim of its founders. Some years before, a small band of women reformers - too far ahead of their time - calling themselves the "Social Science Sisterhood," and making a heroic attempt to do the great things that are now being done, had been ridiculed out of existence! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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